{"id":4613,"date":"2026-05-11T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:10:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T18:10:50","slug":"in-other-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2026\/05\/in-other-words\/","title":{"rendered":"In Other Words&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Just use those other words.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In other words&#8230;,&#8221; spoken by someone frustrated with their attempts to write or speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What I&#8217;m trying to say is&#8230;,&#8221; also spoken by someone frustrated with their attempts to write or speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is something about communicating in either the written or spoken word. After fumbling, grumbling, and doing everything else that rhymes with -umbling, the person blurts, &#8220;In other words &#8230;&#8221; What follows are golden words that communicate thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Great! The frustrated and flustered person had the right words. Throw away all that other stuff and use those words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But I spent so much time on those words.&#8221; So what, toss them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;But my boss expects two pages and I can&#8217;t just turn in three sentences.&#8221; Yes, you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simply use the other words. Simply use the words that you are trying to say. It will be fine. Everyone will be happier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Just use those other words. &#8220;In other words&#8230;,&#8221; spoken by someone frustrated with their attempts to write or speak. &#8220;What I&#8217;m trying to say is&#8230;,&#8221; also spoken by someone frustrated with their attempts to write or speak. There is something about communicating in either the written or spoken word. After fumbling, grumbling, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,32,340,50,66,5],"tags":[173,348,342,172,186,128],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-communication","category-simple","category-thinking","category-word","category-writing","tag-choose","tag-commuication","tag-simple","tag-thinking","tag-word","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}